Ahmet Tekalp - Curriculum vitae#

Ahmet Tekalp's research interests are in the area of digital image and video processing, including video compression and streaming, motion-compensated video filtering for high-resolution, video segmentation, object tracking, content-based video analysis and summarization, multi-camera surveillance video processing, and protection of digital content.

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Address (full postal):

Koç University, College of Engineering
34450 Sariyer, Istanbul
Turkey

Nationality:

Turkey and USA

Studies:

• BS degrees (1980) High Honors, Electrical Engineering & Mathematics, Bogaziçi University
• M.S. (1982) and Ph.D. (1984) degrees in Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer *Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York

Present and Previous Positions:

• 2004- Chair of the Electronics and Informatics Group (part-time position), Turkish Scientific Research Council (TUBITAK), Ankara, Turkey
• 2001- Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (full-time position), College of Engineering, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
• 1986-2005 Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA
• 1984-1987 Research Scientist, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York, USA
• 1981-1984 Research Assistant, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA

Honours and Awards:

• Member, Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA)
• Fellow, IEEE
• Distinguished Lecturer IEEE Signal Processing Society in 1998
• Fulbright Senior Scholarship in 1999
• TUBITAK Science Award 2004 (highest science award in Turkey)
• Editor-in-Chief, Signal Processing: Image Communication (Elsevier)
• Member, ERC-Advanced Panel on Informatics

Professional Activities (Journals, Standards Bodies):

• Editor-in-Chief, EURASIP Signal Processing: Image Communication [Elsevier] (1999 - )
• Editorial Board, Visual Communications and Image Representation [Academic] (1995 - 2000)
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (1994 - 1996)
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (1990 - 1992)
• Area Editor, Graphical Models and Image Processing [Academic] (1995 - 1998)
• Associate Editor, Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing [Kluwer] (1994 - 1999)

Member, International Standards Organization (ISO) JTC1/SC29/WG11 (MPEG) Working Group (Since 11/1995) Member, American National Standards Institute (ANSI), National Committee for Information Technology Standards (NCITS), L3.1 Working Group (formerly known as X3L3.1 Committee) (Since 11/1995)

European Grants and Contracts (last 5 years)

FP6 Network of Excellence, SIMILAR, 2003-2007 (48 months), total budget: Euro 6 Million, my role: local project leader at Koc University, Koc University budget: Euro 325,000

FP6 Network of Excellence, 3DTV, 2004-2008 (48 months), total budget: Euro 6 Million Ahmet Tekalp's role: local project leader at Koc University, Koc University budget: Euro 290,000

COST 2102, Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Non-verbal Communication, 2006-2010, Member of the Management Committee

FP7 STREP, DIOMEDES, 2010-2012 (30 months), total budget: Euro 3 Million Ahmet Tekalp's role: local project leader at Koc University, Koc University budget: Euro 312,000

FP7 STREP, SARACEN, 2010-2013 (36 months), total budget: Euro 3 Million Ahmet Tekalp'srole: local project leader at Koc University, Koc University budget: Euro 255,000

US Grants (older)

NSF ITR Program, SIRG: "Being There": User-centric wireless image-based sensor networks," (with Heinzelman, Bocko, and Sharma) 9/1/04-8/31/07

NSF, IIS Program, ``An Intelligent Visual Database System: Hierarchical Content Description and Matching," 8/1/99 - 7/31/03

NYSTAR, Center for Advanced Technology for Electronic Imaging Systems, ``Digital Video Processing," 7/1/93 - 6/30/03

Eastman Kodak Company, ``Video and Human Motion Analysis," 9/1/90 - 8/31/03

Xerox Corporation, ``Digital Image and Video Watermarking," 7/1/00 - 6/30/00

Keck Foundation, Center for Future Health, ``Human Motion Monitoring," 1/1/00 - 6/30/02

Siemens Corporate Research, Inc, ``3-D Model-Based Video Processing," 10/1/97 - 3/31/02

NSF Combined Research and Curriculum Development, ``A Unified Image Science and Electronic Imaging Systems Curriculum Development Initiative," (with M. Kriss, K. Parker, N. George, and K. Kutulakos), 10/1/98 - 9/30/01

NSF International Collaboration, ``Multimedia Document Indexing," (with F. Yarman-Vural, Middle East. Tech. University-Turkey), 6/1/98 - 11/30/01

NSF SIUC Research Center for Electronic Imaging Systems, ``Image Sequence Processing," 7/1/92 - 6/30/00.

Xerox Corporation, ``Adaptive Color Rendering and Printer Calibration," 9/1/96 - 12/31/99

NSF International Collaboration, ``Model Based Image Compression at Very Low Bit Rates," (with L. Onural and A. E. Cetin, Bilkent University-Turkey), 6/1/94 - 5/31/98

National Science Foundation, ``Modeling and Suppression of Motion Artifacts in MRI," 6/1/92 - 5/31/97, (with W. E. Smith)

National Science Foundation, CISE Research Instrumentation Grants, ``Research Instrumentation for Image and Video Processing," 3/1/93 - 2/28/96

NYS Center for Advanced Optical Technology, ``Novel Methods for Image Sequence Enhancement and Restoration," 6/1/91 - 5/31/93

NATO International Collaboration, ``Studies in Image Restoration and Processing," 4/15/90 - 4/15/95, (with A. E. Cetin, Bilkent, Turkey)

National Science Foundation, CISE Research Instrumentation Grants, ``Research Instrumentation for Image Processing," 4/15/89 - 12/31/90

National Institute of Justice, ``Image Restoration for Criminal Identification," 9/1/88 - 12/31/90,

National Science Foundation, CISE Research Initiation Award, ``Adaptive Image Restoration and Recovery," 7/1/88 - 12/31/90